Device for lipstick holders



Feb. 5, 1957 Y. V. GRISEL DEVICE FOR LIPSTICK HOLDERS Filed May 4. 1954 -Z'N vENToP: i )CAN Vi TOR GR/SEL ATT'oRA/E Ys United States Patent O DEVICE son LIPSTICK Hornnns Yvan Victor Grisel, Geneva, Switzerland, assigner to Louis Tschanz Comptoir de la Parfumerie S. A., Geneva, Switzerland Application May 4, 1954, Serial No. 427,524

1 Claim. (Cl. 21M-156) In order to give lipstick holders an attractive appearance, such holders are nowadays frequently made of a costly gold-plated or precious metal. Such expensive holders cannot, of course, be thrown away when the lipstick is used up but must be refilled. However, the present lipstick holders do not permit of easy replacement of used-up lipsticks. ln the great majority of cases complicated manipulations are necessary in which soiling of the hands by the lipstick or the usually soiled guide sleeves is unavoidable. The present invention proposes to solve this problem. p

The device for lipstick holders with a cup-type member supporting the lipstick, which may be moved upward and downward by rotation of a sleeve portion, is characterized by two sleeves held against rotation which may be slipped on the relatively rotatable lipstick holder portions, and a cap which may be slipped on the said sleeves.

The accompanying drawing shows an embodiment of the invention in longitudinal section,

For the purposes of this specification, the term lipstick holder shall 'oe interpreted to designate the complete mechanism that causes the movement of the cup-typt member holding the lipstick. As is well known, this lipstick holder consists of an inner sleeve 1 with a bottom 2 in which the cup 3 is held. A bolt 4 provided on the cup 3 projects through a slit 5 in the sleeve 1 and engages a thread 6 formed in a sleeve 7 slipped on sleeve 1 so that the cup 3 will move in an upward or downward direction when the sleeve 1 is rotated relatively to sleeve 7. These members, which are referred to as the lipstick holder, may of course be made to any known design. The drawing only shows a possible design nowadays quite usual. This lipstick holder can now be made of inexpensive materials, such as synthetic materials, and already be equipped with an outer covering sleeve. It is, therefore, a lipstick holder which is commercially available and ready for use in this form. ln order to give this inexpensive lipstick holder an attractive appearance, the invention provides for sleeves of a more expensive material to be slipped on the members rotatable relatively to each other. This is achieved by first placv2,7811351 Patented Feb. 5, 1957 ICC ing a sleeve 8 around sleeve 7. Sleeve 8 may be equipped with resilient tongues 9 which engage sleeve 7 and prevent rotation of the sleeve 7 relatively to sleeve 8. Another sleeve 10 is slipped on the lower portion of sleeve l. Sleeve 10 is again equipped with spring leaves 11, holding sleeve lil in respect of sleeve 1. If the lipstick holder is of angular cross section, the sleeves 8 and 10 should be of corresponding shape, the clamping means being superfluous. The sleeves 8 and 10 may be connected for rotation relatively to each other so that they may be slipped on the lipstick holder. Finally a ca'p sleeve 12 is provided.

The invention solves the problem of rells in the simplest manner. Inexpensive commercial lipsticks may be purchased at a price only slightly higher than that of the rells and by slipping on the sleeves made of gold-plated or precious metal be given an attractive appearance. The diameters of commercial lipsticks being standardized, such slip-on sleeves may be used for a variety of makes so that a change-over from one product to another does not preclude further use of the said sleeves. The invention completely eliminates replacement of lipsticks. No soiling occurs when the sleeves are slipped on and any woman can perform the operation.

What I claim is:

In combination with a lipstick holder, comprising an inner sleeve having a bottom, a lipstick-receiving cup located in said sleeve and longitudinally reciprocable therein, an outer sleeve enclosing said inner sleeve and rotatable relatively thereto, said sleeves having formed therein slots which are inclined relatively to each other and which intersect each other, a bolt carried by said cup and extending into said slots, whereby manipulation of the inner sleeve bottom will cause a turning of the inner sleeve relatively to the outer sleeve and thus move said cup longitudinally within said inner sleeve; an outer container for said lipstick holder, said outer container comprising a container sleeve mounted upon said outer sleeve and having resilient means engaging said outer sleeve, another container sleeve rotatably mounted over the rstmentioned container sleeve and fitting over the bottom of the inner sleeve, said other container sleeve having resilient means engaging said inner sleeve, and a cap sleeve closing the inner sleeve, and adapted to be mounted upon said other container sleeve.

References Cited in the ile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,013,368 Hickox Sept. 3, 1935 2,329,375 Houlihan Sept. 14, 1943 2,352,448 Reichenbach c lune 27, 1944 2,469,631 Broder May 10, 1949 FOREIGN PATlNTS 910,851 France Feb. 18, 1946 969,231 France May 17,` 1950 

